I'm building a Jackbox-like web app [0] to support audience participation in live improv shows - OBS/projector overlay and audience suggestion management to begin, with future interactivity planned.
Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
311–320 of 1001 posts
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#312I made a Spotify playlist that is automatically updated with songs recently played on BBC 6 Music.
Built with basic node server, puppeteer and the Spotify API.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xft9w8N7FUe23a4G4YzvG?si=...
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#313[deleted]
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#314I created Ruby API lib named Joshua, out of frustration with Grape
* Can work in REST or JSON RPC mode.
* Automatic routing + can be mounted as a Rack app, without framework, for unmatched speed and low memory usage
* Automatic documentation builder & Postman import link
* Nearly nothing to learn, pure Ruby classes
* Consistent and predictable request and response flow
* Errors and messages are localized
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#31524/7 childcare is an unexpected "side project".
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#316I've been building a product for automating the collection and production of customer testimonial & review videos - https://verifiablee.com/
Actually started just pre-pandemic, so the timing has been quite interesting.
And yes, also lots of bread.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#317Simply put, SuPragma is a tool that programmatically scans your organization with the goal of finding issues that can lead to problems or inconsistencies with culture health and style. Some issues can even be automatically fixed for you!
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#318My wife and I made a short story to help explain the lockdown to our families - https://www.stilltakeheart.com/
I also worked on helping prove to the UK government that open banking can help justify income for the self employed - https://covidcredit.uk/
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#319[deleted]
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#320My side projects are nonexistent, as corona created more business than usual. I found this sentiment of being behind side project expectations nicely displayed here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/04/have-y...